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...Press on future Chinese-American projects, Fang left for Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology. There he inspected the Landsat photographs surveying natural resources and a solar-energy farm that can produce 400 kw of electricity. In Houston, he visited the Texas Medical Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Methodist Hospital. But the highlight of Fang's U.S. trip was Los Angeles. Fang was given a detailed tour of Lockheed's L-1011 assembly plant at nearby Palmdale and shown the company's closely guarded research laboratory at Rye Canyon...
...number of theologians concur that the apparent convergence of religious and scientific versions of the creation is a coincidence from which no profound meaning can be extracted. "If the last evidence for God occurred 20 billion years ago," asks Methodist W. Paul Jones of Missouri's St. Paul School of Theology, "do we not at best have the palest of deisms?" Jesuit Philosopher Bernard Lonergan goes further: "Science has nothing to say about creation, because that's going outside the empirical. The whole idea of empirical science is that you have data. Theologians have no data...
...McRae v. Califano, a lawsuit on the Medicaid abortion issue that is nearing decision in a Brooklyn federal court and will probably end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. The class action suit is brought by the Women's Division of the big (9.9 million members) United Methodist Church in concert with Planned Parenthood and various doctors and poor women. The Methodists are backed by a friend-of-the-court brief filed by 15 other national religious interest groups, including the American Jewish Congress, the synagogue unions of Conservative and Reform Judaism, the Methodist Board of Church and Society...
...vote was an endorsement of the policies of the Rev. Philip A. Potter, 57, a West Indian Methodist who has been General Secretary of the council since 1972 and is an outspoken advocate of church action against "political and economic oppression." The Patriotic Front grant especially disturbed the huge Evangelical Church in Germany (E.K.D.). The West Germans carry special clout in the financially strapped W.C.C., since they provide up to 40% of the council's income. An E.K.D. spokesman warned in October that the violence issue was "liable to blow the whole ecumenical movement apart...
...1960s, but, at least until now, they have been protected by ever-increasing public subsidies. Competition from new branches of the University of Maine, for example, led to the closing early last year of Ricker College in Houlton, Me. In Dallas, the well-regarded night-school classes of Southern Methodist University once accounted for 35% of S.M.U.'s enrollment; with seven new community colleges in the area, that part-time enrollment now accounts for only 13% of the total...